Exim Bank Team China leaves Chinese rounds of the FIA GT1 World Championship

BEIJING,
13th
September 2011. This week Exim Bank Team China is leaving Asia, and
travelling to the workshops located near Brussels, in order to
prepare for the final round of the World Championship, to be held at
San Luis in Argentina. Over a period of some ten days the team
travelled with both Corvette C6.R cars from Ordos to Peking,
competing in two races and a similar number of demonstration runs on
the programme.

Chinese
FIA GT1 World Championship tour a success!

The
finale of the Chinese tour, in the Olympic Park, where two
demonstration races were on the programme, was exceptionally
impressive and that success was completely in line with what had
already gone before in China. In front of 50,000 spectators the
Beijing GT1 World Supercars event took place, held between the two
previous Olympic Games monuments, the Bird's
Nest and the Water Cube, with as highlight a pit stop competition,
where Exim
Bank Team China finished in third place. On the other hand the races
in Ordos and Beijing were also a great success, with packed
grandstands. For Exim Bank Team the sporting highpoint of this tour
in front of a home crowd was undoubtedly the championship race in
Beijing, with a fifth place for the Michael Rossi and Nico Verdonck
do, whilst the car manned by Ho-Pin Tung and Jeroen den Boer crossed
the finish line in eleventh place. Earlier in the day these teams
finished in eighth and fourteenth places. Exactly one week earlier,
in Ordos, the team were less successful with as outcome a best result
of twelfth place going to Ho-Pin Tung and Jeroen den Boer.

Nico
Verdonck and Michael Rossi have the crowds on the edge of their
seats!

During
the championship race in Beijing the French and Belgian Corvette
drivers started out just within the top-10, but a brilliant race, in
extremely difficult conditions, ensured a top-5 ranking for the Exim
Bank Team China Corvette C6.R at the finish. At times the rain was so
intense that the Safety Car came on to the track and yet both drivers
in the yellow and red Corvette managed to climb up five places and
this to the utter delight of the home crowds. Exim Bank Team China
can hardly wait to battle it out once again on home ground!